ABC News(BOSSIER PARISH, LA.) — An elderly neighbor with a boat became a hero in Louisiana on Monday when he and two sheriff’s deputies saved a man and two dogs stuck in a tree after his boat sank. The watery rescue scene unfolded on Lake Bistineau after the stranded boater […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo intends to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its controversial immigration policies, including the “callous and inhumane” practice of separating children from their parents at the U.S. border, he announced Tuesday. The state of New York will file […]
FBI(WASHINGTON) — Federal prosecutors in Washington D.C. announced the first ever “John Doe” indictment of a still unknown suspect’s DNA on Tuesday, as part of an ongoing investigation into a string of violent sexual assaults of women in hotel rooms in the D.C. area between 1998 and 2006. The long-unsolved […]
ABC News(CHICAGO) — Chicago police released surveillance video this week showing a young thug punching a priest in the face after the clergyman confronted the young man about alleged breaking into his church. when he was trying to find out what the burglar did in his church. Father Matthew Compton […]
iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLESTON, S.C.) — One southern city wants to apologize for its past. City officials in Charleston, South Carolina, will vote on a resolution Tuesday that expresses regret for the centuries of human slavery that was administered and regulated by its former lawmakers. “This is the modern city council which feels […]
National Park Service(SANTA MONICA, Calif.) — National Park Service researchers in California discovered that a mountain lion they’ve been tracking since January has given birth to a little of four kittens. The kittens — who are all female — were found recently in Simi Hills, a small habitat wedged between […]
ABC News(GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — When the 9-year-old Guatemalan boy arrived at a Michigan foster care home, he was so afraid he couldn’t eat. Over time, the boy confided to his foster parents, Karl and Jen, that he and his father had escaped violence and poverty in their homeland only […]
Google Maps(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — Women seeking medical abortions in Arkansas will have two weeks to access them after a court temporarily suspended a state-wide ban. Medical abortions — those that use pills rather than surgery to end a pregnancy — were banned in Arkansas after the Supreme Court declined […]
Google, FILE(RICHMOND, Va.) — A predominantly African-American elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, is dropping its confederate general name and will soon be known as Barack Obama Elementary. A predominantly African-American elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, is dropping its confederate general name and will soon be known as Barack Obama Elementary. […]
Milwaukee Police Dept.(MILWAUKEE) — One of the officers involved in the tasing and arrest of unarmed Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown briefly took his gun out of his holster during the confrontation, newly obtained body-camera footage shows. The video, obtained and published by ABC Milwaukee affiliate WISN Monday, shows the […]
